Fight to Learn

Inspiration

Inspired by Quizlet, Hearthstone, and Kahoot, Fight to Learn aims to combine exciting and tactical gameplay with a helpful studying tool!

What it does

Fight to Learn is a tactical card game. The two main aspects are education and strategy-- we designed the app with reinforcement learning and having fun in mind. Through playing certain cards, the player can outsmart the computer in a 1v1 battle, but to secure victory, they must answer Kahoot-style questions from an educational question bank.

How we built it

We used Unity with C# as our framework to create Fight to Learn. Core graphic assets were designed with Procreate. For version control and collaboration, we used Git with GitHub.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge for our team was learning game development with Unity and C#. None of us had experience with this framework, so we had to learn from the basics in a very limited time. We ran into countless errors such as losing our entire project (3 times), which forced us to muster our greatest perseverance and problem solving skills.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Staying awake, together, and resilient for the entirety of our project despite losing huge portions of our code base several times, overcoming the intense Unity learning curve, and everything we have done so far.

What we learned

We learned how to use Unity and C# to develop a game. We also learned the great importance of version control and that even you didn't succeed at an ambitious goal, the things you learn along the way are of great value as well. Now that we have some more familiarity with Unity, we could implement a lot more features given enough time.

What's next for Fight to Learn

Unfortunately, we were not able to implement all of the core mechanics of the game due to aforementioned challenges. However, we have a fully developed game design that we can implement in the future. We also have lots of extra improvements and features in mind for the far future of this project, including but not limited to:

Multiplayer support for players to study with friends
Further tactical complexity
Rewards for winning, like coins to purchase in-game cosmetics
Enhanced deck customization
Learning analytics to optimize learning and target essential concepts
New educational themes, and built-in question banks so users can jump right into the studying!